--- title: 'Quality Engineer (Austin, TX) at Exowatt' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/quality-engineer-austin-tx-exowatt-austin-mt54bwmqffed' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-19' --- # Quality Engineer (Austin, TX) at Exowatt - **Company:** Exowatt - **Location:** Austin, TX - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-21 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-19 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/exowatt/e2a95b2d-ee89-479c-ab96-ffff1ad6a3f9 ## Job description Exowatt is revolutionizing the energy landscape for the AI era with our groundbreaking P3 system that captures solar energy, stores it as heat, and generates electricity on demand. Founded in 2023 and backed by leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sam Altman, and Felicis, we're committed to providing clean, modular, and scalable power that meets the rapidly growing demands of AI infrastructure. Our mission is to make sustainable renewable energy always available and almost free, enabling technological advancement while protecting our planet. We're hiring a Quality Engineer to own the quality of our supply chain and manufacturing operations. You'll qualify suppliers, drive root-cause investigations, and build the quality systems that let us scale from pilot builds to volume production. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for someone equally at home on a factory floor, at a supplier site, and deep in inspection and yield data. This role is based in our Austin, TX facility. Relocation is required, and relocation assistance will be provided if necessary. ## What You'll Do - Own incoming inspection, in-process, and final quality for assigned commodities, sub-assemblies, and finished product - Partner with the supply chain team to qualify new suppliers — on-site audits, first-article inspections (FAI), PPAP-style submissions, and process capability reviews - Develop inspection plans, control plans, and acceptance criteria for purchased parts and in-house manufactured components - Lead root-cause investigations (8D, 5-Why, Ishikawa) on supplier defects and internal manufacturing non-conformances; drive corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to closure - Manage the non-conformance (NCR) and supplier corrective action request (SCAR) processes end-to-end - Partner with design engineering on DFM/DFA reviews and help translate design intent into manufacturable, inspectable specifications (GD&T, critical-to-quality features) - Track and report quality metrics — PPM, first-pass yield, cost of poor quality, supplier scorecards — and use them to drive improvement - Support new product introduction (NPI) from prototype through production ramp, including process validation and pilot builds - Build and maintain quality documentation: inspection procedures, work instructions, quality records, and calibration programs - Help stand up and evolve Exowatt's quality management system (QMS) — we're early enough that you'll shape it, not just operate inside it - Partner closely with the Reliability Engineering team to feed manufacturing and supplier quality data into failure analysis and design improvements Required Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, Aerospace, or a related engineering field - 5+ years of quality engineering experience in a hardware manufacturing environment - Hands-on experience with supplier quality — audits, FAI, PPAP, SCARs, and supplier development - Working knowledge of root-cause methodologies (8D, 5-Why, fishbone) and statistical tools (SPC, Cpk, MSA, DOE basics) - Fluency with GD&T and the ability to read and interpret mechanical drawings - Experience with metrology and inspection tools (CMM, calipers, micrometers, optical comparators, etc.) - Deep experience with ISO 9001 and the fundamentals of building or operating a QMS - Clear technical writing and the ability to communicate findings to suppliers, engineers, and leadership - Willingness to travel to supplier facilities domestically and occasionally internationally ## Preferred Qualifications - Experience in energy, aerospace, automotive, industrial equipment, or other regulated/high-reliability hardware industries - Exposure to welded or brazed assemblies, pressure vessels, high-temperature materials, thermal storage systems, or rotating machinery relevant to the P3 system - ASQ certification (CQE, CQA, or CSSBB) - Deep Experience standing up a QMS at an early-stage company, or taking one from ISO 9001 toward AS9100, ISO 14001, or similar - Six Sigma Green or Black Belt - Experience with ERP/MES/QMS platforms (NetSuite, Arena, Propel, or similar) - Experience building a quality function from scratch at an early-stage hardware company What We Offer: Competitive salary and equity options. Comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and retirement plans. A dynamic work environment that fosters creativity and innovation. Opportunities for professional growth and development in a rapidly evolving industry. Relocation assistance. ## About Exowatt ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Exowatt designs and manufactures modular, full-stack solar energy systems that capture solar energy, store it as heat, and dispatch electricity on demand to power energy-intensive infrastructure like AI data centers. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: Miami, FL, USA - **Founded**: 2023 (implied by company narrative) - **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed on the website or job postings ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Renewable Energy, Clean Technology, Energy Storage, AI Infrastructure. - **Target customers**: B2B — specifically AI data centers, high-performance computing (HPC) data centers, and utility-scale energy projects. They also target utility companies and industrial sites with high energy demands. - **Mission or purpose statement**: "Our mission is to deliver ultra-low-cost, reliable power that fuels global AI infrastructure while protecting our planet" — as stated by the founders on their vision page. ## Products & Services - **Exowatt P3**: The flagship product, a "dispatchable solar" system. It is a modular, full-stack energy system that captures solar energy using custom optical lenses (Fresnel lenses), stores it as heat in a proprietary high-temperature sensible heat battery (long-duration energy storage), and converts it into electricity on demand via a proprietary heat engine. It is designed to provide up to 24 hours of dispatchable energy, essentially serving as a baseload power source. The system can be deployed behind the meter (BTM) to reduce interconnection wait times, and is built in the USA without rare earth minerals. - **Energy Optimization Software**: Integrated software platform for real-time monitoring, control, and automation of Exowatt P3 systems. Enables intelligent dispatch, integration with other energy assets (solar PV, wind, natural gas, grid), and participation in arbitrage and virtual power plants (VPPs). ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Total Funding — $70 million Series A round announced on April 22, 2025 [exowatt.com](https://www.exowatt.com/faq). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not named on the website (the funding announcement and Crunchbase profile are referenced but not detailed on the main site). The company claims a "Made in the USA" supply chain and mentions partnerships with utility companies and data center operators. - **Growth Signals**: - Raised a significant $70M Series A in early 2025, signaling strong investor confidence. - Actively hiring across multiple key engineering and leadership roles (Electrical, Mechanical, Controls, Power Electronics) in two locations (Miami, FL and Austin, TX). - Targeting the rapidly expanding AI and HPC data center market, which has an enormous and growing demand for clean, dispatchable power. - Their product’s "Bring Your Own Power" (BYOP) capability directly addresses the critical bottleneck of long interconnection queues for new data centers, a major market pain point. ## Competitive Advantages - **Dispatchable Solar + Storage**: Unlike standard solar PV, Exowatt's system can provide 24/7 baseload power by storing solar energy as heat and generating electricity on demand, solving the intermittency problem of renewables. - **Expedited Time-to-Power**: The ability to deploy fully behind the meter allows customers to bypass lengthy utility interconnection queues, accelerating project timelines for energy-intensive facilities like data centers. - **No Rare Earth Minerals**: The system is built with abundant, domestically sourced materials, avoiding supply chain vulnerabilities and environmental concerns associated with rare earth mining. - **Modular & Scalable**: Factory-built modules allow for linear scaling, enabling customers to start small and expand capacity as their energy needs grow. - **30-Year Lifespan**: Designed for low maintenance and a 30-year operational life, providing long-term reliability. ## Strategic Focus - **Targeting the AI Energy Boom**: Exowatt is squarely focused on providing clean, reliable, and rapidly deployable power to solve the massive energy demands of AI and HPC data centers. - **U.S. Manufacturing & Energy Independence**: The company is prioritizing domestic manufacturing to ensure quality, supply chain security, and alignment with national energy independence goals. - **Scaling Rapidly to Meet Demand**: With a $70M Series A, the focus is likely on scaling manufacturing, building out their deployment pipeline with initial customers, and expanding the engineering team to accelerate product development and deployment. ## Why Work Here - **High-Impact Mission**: The opportunity to work on a critical technology that directly enables the AI revolution by solving its most fundamental constraint: sustainable, scalable power. - **High-Performance Team**: The company describes itself as a "high-performance team of engineers, scientists, and builders pushing the boundaries of what’s possible," indicating a fast-paced, ambitious environment. - **On-Site Engineering Roles**: The posted positions (Electrical Engineer, Lead Mechanical Engineer, Lead Controls & Firmware Engineer) are full-time and on-site in either **Miami, FL** or **Austin, TX**. No remote or hybrid options are visible in current job listings. - **Competitive Benefits**: Benefits include comprehensive healthcare, flexible PTO, and team-wide equity [exowatt.com/careers](https://www.exowatt.com/careers). - **Small, Fast-Moving Company**: With a Series A funding, this is an early-stage company, offering roles with high ownership, influence, and the chance to build foundational systems. ## Sources 1. [exowatt.com](https://www.exowatt.com/?gad_campaignid=21982037242) 2. [exowatt.com](https://www.exowatt.com/faq) 3. [exowatt.com](https://www.exowatt.com/vision) 4. [exowatt.com](https://www.exowatt.com/careers) 5. 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